Reporter Finds Dead Body In Ice Block on Normal Day in Detroit

A dead body encased in solid ice for who knows how long was found—with only the feet sticking out—in an elevator shaft in a warehouse. In Detroit, obviously. By a reporter. One we know!

Before calling the police, this reporter went to check on the tip, skeptical of a hoax. Sure enough, in the well of the cargo elevator, two feet jutted out above the ice. Closer inspection revealed that the rest of the body was encased in 2-3 feet of ice, the body prostrate, suspended into the ice like a porpoising walrus.

Stories like this only happen to former NYT bad boy reporter turned gritty Detroit News scribe Charlie LeDuff! Not only did he find the icy dead man, he went back to ask all the homeless guys who live in the warehouse why they didn't call the cops. They responded in the way that homeless guys do, in movies about reporters interviewing homeless guys in Detroit: